About us

For over a decade, STRABAG UK has brought the strength and success of the STRABAG Group to the UK. With over 180 years of company history and active in over 2,400 locations across more than 50 countries, the STRABAG Group is a diverse leader in construction, innovation, and financial strength.

Headquartered in Vienna, the STRABAG Group offers a wide range of construction services across the industry and the entire construction value chain.

We are committed to long-term investment in the UK through ambitious projects spanning various sectors, with a steadfast focus on supporting our people and protecting the environment.

Role

Working on large-scale steel frame projects from early concept through to construction handover, you will lead all Mechanical, Electrical and Public Health (MEP) preconstruction activities, ensuring robust technical solutions, programme certainty and cost-effective design strategies.

This is a key leadership role requiring close collaboration with clients, consultants, supply chain partners and internal delivery teams to develop coordinated, buildable and sustainable MEP solutions that align with project objectives. You will play a central part in securing new work, driving innovation and adding value throughout the tender and preconstruction phases, helping STRABAG UK maintain its reputation for excellence in complex industrial and logistics construction.

Requirements

• Contribute reviewing of MEP elements of prequalification documents and tenders.
• Effective management, capable of controlling MEP elements of projects with tender values of up to £500 Million.
• Develop, demonstrate, and maintain the highest standards of offering from the MEP bid function in relation to accuracy, risk assessment, predictability of outcome and supply chain selection.
• Establish MEP bid strategies including supply chain selection, commercial strategies / route to margin, risk, and opportunity.
• Carry out a full review of the MEP scope of works and undertake technical appraisals identifying any risk or gaps and mitigation measures required and ensuring these are suitable resolved or strategy established prior to settlements.
• Produce appraised tender return review to allow commercial selection for the MEP package.
• Close commercial and design liaison, working alongside and managing the MEP design, estimating and pre-construction teams, combined with input into the overall management of the project.
• Create detailed documents to convey MEP method of construction to the client.
• Communicate MEP intend and requirements with the supply chain, internally within the group and its departments and externally with designers and other stakeholders.
• To produce and execute MEP value engineering ideas throughout the process.
• Be conversant with all construction related policies and directives from health and safety to CDM.
• Engage and contribute to project co-ordination meetings.
• Contribute to the planning of activities through development of the programme.
• Develop and maintain relationships with the MEP supply chain, in terms of workload, win strategies and business development and feedback.
• Work in the Pre-construction phase to develop the Project Execution plan in preparation for handover.
• Take part in off site meetings and site visits as required.
• Review site utility provisions, equalise any utility quotes & bids, close scope gaps and report on risk and opportunity for the development to develop a Utility solution for the bid. Ensure clarification of utility provision in bid returns.
• Produce MEP/Utilities builders works strategies for the bid team.
• Work with the pre-construction design team to review and develop Breeam, BRUKL and EPC strategies for the tender return, in relationship to the MEP elements of these items.
• Manage, support and organise subordinate team MEP pre-construction team members.